Thank heaven for 7-Eleven

[George K]

[89th]

Looks like ants attacking a slice of watermelon.

[Mik]

At some point the crackdown has to come. Either that or those areas become a real food desert.

[Jolly]

@89th said in Thank heaven for 7-Eleven:

Looks like ants attacking a slice of watermelon.

[taiwan_girl]

@Mik said in Thank heaven for 7-Eleven:

At some point the crackdown has to come. Either that or those areas become a real food desert.

Yup. How stupid!! Then people will complain that businesses are leaving their neighborhood

[Horace]

The lack of consequences for this behavior can be laid at the feet of the dominant political ideology of those areas.

[jon-nyc]

I’m actually in LA right now. Maybe I’ll give it a try

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Thank heaven for 7-Eleven:

I’m actually in LA right now. Maybe I’ll give it a try

I wouldn’t. Tonal dissonance and all that.

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in Thank heaven for 7-Eleven:

I’m actually in LA right now. Maybe I’ll give it a try

You should change your name to jon-la

[Mik]

So what are you doing in LA? Board business?

[George K]

@89th said in Thank heaven for 7-Eleven:

You should change your name to jon-la

That sounds vaguely geh.

[Jolly]

True story....

Many moons ago, there was an unbelievable spate of armed robberies of 7/11 stores in Dallas. The solution was to station a policeman armed with a shotgun in the cooler, watching the front counter. The instructions were to shoot the robber at the first sign of a drawn and pointed gun.

IIRC, the police killed two or three on Friday night, one on Saturday night and Sunday night in Dallas saw no armed robberies at any area 7/11. There was outrage at police brutality, but the robberies ceased. And stayed that way for a few weeks, even though the cops quit shooting robbers.

[jon-nyc]

@Mik said in Thank heaven for 7-Eleven:

So what are you doing in LA? Board business?

Yeah, visited UCLA Health and today we have an Education Day for patients.

[Catseye3]

@Jolly said in Thank heaven for 7-Eleven:

The solution was to station a policeman armed with a shotgun in the cooler, watching the front counter.

I've redd of this as a device in fiction -- police stationed in the storerooms of liquor stores.

I don't have a problem with it. Like the carny man says, "Ya pays ya money and ya takes ya choice."